LAKE TRAMMELL

LAKE TRAMMELL. Lake Trammell (sometimes Trammel) is on Sweetwater Creek in the middle Brazos River basin, eight miles southwest of Sweetwater in central Nolan County (at 32°22' N, 100°26' W). The lake is named for Thomas Trammell, an important early citizen of Sweetwater. An agricultural community near the lake was originally called Ada. Lake Trammell Dam, an earthfill structure, was completed in 1915 and is sixty-one feet high, has a 500-foot-long spillway, and impounds a maximum of 4,382 acre-feet. The dam was engineered by M. M. Cook, and the lake is owned by the city of Sweetwater and used as a reservoir for municipal, domestic, and recreational purposes.

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